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Interested in writing a migration tool targeting (or synchronizing with) Team Foundation Server version control or workitem tracking? Then check out the pre-release of the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit on CodePlex! http://www.codeplex.com/MigrationSyncToolkit
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When running the VSS to TFS converter (VSSConverter.exe) one of the most common questions I hear is how to create a UserMap.xml file for users who are no longer with the company or have had their accounts renamed. My first suggestion is that any customer
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In my previous rant I made this statement (quoted out of context): Migrating WSS content to TFS? Piece of cake. Just enumerate each WSS change and replay the action in TFS. If you are doing an incremental migration then just enumerate those changes that
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Every once in a while I get a message that at first baffles me but once I understand the problem it's hand-smackingly obvious. This error message was one of those. "hexadecimal value 0x07, is an invalid character" By now I’ve run into this problem a few
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I'm curious what you think. Imagine you have an installation of Generic Version Control System with 500,000 items you intend to migrate to TFS. Each item has, on average, 3 revisions of history. So you have 1.5 million revisions. And let's say that this
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There is an upcoming Team System chat on the 8th. I will be involved to field questions on version control migration and the new QueryMergesWithDetails API that became available in SP1. Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss
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Yesterday I presented 20 questions that I think are a good starting point when designing or evaluating a version control migration product. The point is basically to get folks thinking about what should be migrated, how it should be migrated and what
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Introducing on Team Foundation Server family! We have Work Item Tracking, Team Build, Version Control and the Data Warehouse!” And the “Other System” family! With Proprietary Bug Tracking, Informal Build Process and Your Version Control System of Choice!
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Last time I discussed the issues surrounding namespace conflicts when designing a version control migration tool. The basic lesson was that there are times when operations must be executed in a specific order for them to migrate properly. But what if
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Migrating from one version control system to another is tough. I don’t care what the internet forums are saying or what Joe from down the hall told you. It’s hard. Very hard. Deceptively hard. The obvious algorithm looks trivial: FOR EACH Changeset CS
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The updated Team Foundation Power Toy (TFPT) released on 9/7. It includes 12 powertoys - they are: Unshelve – adds merge capability to the existing Unshelve command Rollback – allows you to undo a checkin of a changeset Online – allows syncing of files
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Mario has begun a blog about TFS Version Control. If this is a topic that interests you I would highly recomend checking it out. http://blogs.msdn.com/mrod/
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Have you encountered an issue when using the VSSConveter (used to convert VSS source history to TFS)? Need a little help working past a blocking issue? The purpose of this post is to give you a few ideas about where to go for additional information and
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While we’re talking about diffing … now I needed to be able to diff two local directories with a few requirements … 1) determine left/right only items 2) determine the optimal recursive compression of those items 3) print some status one in a while 4)
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I often need to answer some seemingly simple questions like: What has changed between these two builds? How do the contents of these two branches deviate? What % of the files in a child branch have deltas from the parent branch? To answer these I’ve traditionally
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